Date for Surgery

My surgery will happen January 19, 2012.

For my cancer, everything up to and including surgery is treatment.  After the surgery, I plan on being a Survivor with a Plan.  I will look and feel like I have been to war.  But I will be a one day survivor.  A two day survivor.  A one month, and a 6 month survivor.  etc, etc, et Ceteri    My Plan is to focus on the et Ceteri.

I'll see my new grandson, Ian Ray Aloyisus Gliebe towards the end of May.  (His parents have not yet made a final decision about his name.  But how could they not like this one?)
I'll hear some more professions of faith and get to baptize a few more people.
I'll see more lives changed, including my own.
I'll see my son walk with his graduating class.
I will praise God that He allowed me to see all this.

We need plans, something to look forward to.  Treatment for cancer is rough and tough.  Surviving the cancer becomes our primary focus.  Once we are survivors post operative plans carry us into health.  Focus on these plans.  They are our et Ceteri.  They will fill our lives with joy and focus after our disease is gone.

As we focus on the et Ceteri, they will become Street Lights shining on the pathway before us.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.    Amen


(You get extra points if you sing this out loud.)